MAP02: Down Through (Sunlust)

MAP02: Down Through is the second map of Sunlust. It was designed by Daniel Jakobsson (dannebubinga), and uses the music track "Magician Type 0" from the game "".

Essentials
First key: Go forward and take the shotgun. You will hear at least one swoosh sound produced by teleporting. You could glimpse enemies within the cages who have been actually teleported. They will return in combat later. Drop into the shaft ahead of you. Collect bonuses (optional) that will give you ten points to your health and armor. Press the skull. Eliminate imps and a sergeant and proceed to a room. In the room, ahead of you is a staircase. Go there and climb up. You eventually come to a large hall with slime on the floor. It does not hurt, so it is safe. You can drop there down and head to the left. You should notice a slimy waterfall. Go through it and you will be in a cave. However, beware an ambush of two chaingunners. Kill them first. A large group of imps and some other tough enemies will be here. Dispatch them and ascend the stairs to the top. Proceed on the tunnel way and take the blue keycard.

With the key collected, backtrack to the very first room you came to. For this, in the cave, ascend the stairs to the right, southwest (if you ascend the stairs to the left, east, you can eventually collect soulsphere but this is optional). Go back to the stairs to the west.

Second key: In the central main room, open the barrier which needs blue key and enter the teleporter. Follow the corridor to a door. Open the door to get to a slime room. One of the arch-viles has been unleashed here. It resurrects corpses, so first make efforts to kill him first. And when it is dead, kill the remaining ones. Between two orange panels, ascend the stairs. Go around and press the switch. An ambush behind you will open. Prepare for the three other ambushes. Kill the enemies and head to the trap room in which there is/was a mancubus or a Hell knight depending on your skill level, and press the skull switch here. Now, you can collect the yellow keycard. Go to the opened barriers and take the card. Be sure to find secret #2 if you want it.

Last part: Return to the central main room. In this room, the yellow door can be seen, however, is unreachable from here. Go back to the stairs leading to the slime hall. Drop down to the slime again. Head into passageway (a trap consisting of former sergeant will open to the left of you). In the south corridor, head to the right. Turn right and ascend the stairs. So, you eventually came to the door. Press the switch to open the door, as it is not opened manually. Enter the dark room with a cage. Pressing the skull switch is what you need here. There is also secret #3 can be found. In the slime hall, the platform linking the eastern and western parts of the level will be risen. Ascend the stairs in the main room. Fight the arch-vile and other enemies. Jump over to the platform and to the other side. Take a soulsphere and press the switch to open the door. Enter the door and descend down to finish the level.

Official

 * 1) In the slime hall there is a small pit inside an alcove in its western wall. Drop into the pit and use the lift and you will be taken to a room you've seen earlier. Collect blue armor, clips and shells here. Use the teleporter at the bottom of the pit to get out of this area. (sector 89)
 * 2) Go to the western room where the yellow keycard is found. Stand against the western wall and face south, and you will see an tucked-away switch in a small gap between two walls. Shoot it and the western computer panels will lower, allowing you to enter inside. Collect rockets, cells and a medikit.  (sector 548)
 * 3) In the caged room next to the slime hall, where the button which raises the bridge over the slime is located, there is an alcove inside the southern wall. If you step inside, a button behind you will be revealed for three seconds. Press this button before it hides again, and the platform inside the alcove will lower. Drop down and take the plasma gun and cells.  (sector 674)

Non-official

 * In the slimy cavern with the stairs (at the northern end of the map), a hidden alcove near the south-western end of the stairs contains a box of shotgun shells.

Bugs
It is impossible to attain 100% kills on the easy difficulties, as two monsters (things 377 and 376) reside in broken monster closets.

If monsters or players simultaneously block teleport destination things 30 and 118 as the bridge is crossed (which triggers tag 83), the ambush monster will fail to teleport and will be stuck in its closet.

Current records
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

The data was last verified in its entirety on April 26, 2023.

Things
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level: